7/11 Top o' the Morning to Ya! I woke up to a super hot room. Rooming with 2 stinky French guys and 3 others with no open windows meant our room smelled like ass. It was about 9 AM and I had not had a very good night's sleep; springs from the mattress dug in my back all night, some dude snored like a chainsaw, and it must have been 90 degrees in our room. I immediately grabbed some clothes and went to take a shower. Having no clean underwear, I decided it was g...

7/10 Buh bye Switzerland! Hellooooooo Ireland! I got woken up by Combes at 8:30 so that we could get in one more game of Catan. Everyone else got up to finish packing the last of their things. Bruce and Renee had already left so it was down to my parents, my brother, Combes and me. At about 9:30, we said our goodbyes and everyone else headed to the airport. I was officially all by myself! I tried to go back to sleep but that didn't work. So I read some magazine...

7/9 Zurich: The San Francisco of Switzerland, minus the homeless and pee smell We didn't leave the hotel until about 9:30 that morning. We had bought food for breakfast the day before so we didn't have to eat at the hotel buffet (28 euro!) Mom had found a walking tour route on her map that would take us throughout the city. We had to take the tram into town. We got off and started our walk. A lot of window shopping stops later and 1 bratwurst stop, we found a f...

7/8 2 cities that start with Z in 1 day We decided to meet down in the lobby around 9:00 for breakfast and then head out into town. We snagged a few more snacks from the breakfast buffet because we knew we would have another long travel day and might not have a lot of time to buy any snacks later. Plus, the cheese wedges were really good. We all headed into town to get some sandwiches and drinks for the train ride. We got back to the hotel, checked out, and the...

7/7 Gondolas... Not just for water! We met for breakfast at 9. We decided to get a gondola up a mountain called Schwarzee and then hike back down. About an hour later we were on our way to get our gondola. It cost 31 francs for a one way ticket up (much more reasonable than the 78 francs from the day before!) All 7 of is piled in a gondola and made our way to the top. On the way up it got pretty windy at some points, which rocked the gondola and freaked me out ...